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As businesses shift to a digital-first environment, cloud computing will play a dominant role in delivering greater flexibility and faster innovation. In a recent report by Deloitte, nearly 90% of US-based senior decision makers proclaim cloud to be the cornerstone of their digital strategy. Covid accelerated cloud migration initiatives, with no signs of slowing down. Gartner forecasts worldwide end-user spend on public cloud services will grow by 20.4% in 2022 to a total of $494.7 billion.

The SolarWinds® Papertrail™ software as a service (SaaS) Add-On in the DigitalOcean Marketplace is one of the most exciting developments to come out of the DigitalOcean and Papertrail partnership. With the Add-On, developers can seamlessly add the simple yet powerful log management Papertrail is known for to their DigitalOcean infrastructure. In an earlier post, we reviewed how the Add-On helps teams simplify their log management tasks.

At CloudZero, we’re confident that we can organize cloud spend better than anyone else out there. For years, we’ve helped companies to efficiently organize spend, while overcoming traditional hurdles to visibility, like shared cost, incomplete tagging, and Kubernetes. We’ve helped customers who have struggled to attribute spend to do so in a matter of days — without saddling engineering teams with new projects or embarking on a resource tagging expedition with no end in sight.

Amazon indeed does have everything from A to Z. Whether it's new underwear, cat food, those birthday candles that restart after you blow them out, or cloud storage, Amazon has you covered. Sure, the company (and its CEO) are far from ethical, but at the end of the day, Amazon products and services are affordable, reliable, and highly accessible. Like with the Amazon store, finding the cloud service you're looking for may get a little confusing.

Today I’m going to speak about another important Best practice, Tips, and Tricks that you need to know before you start to develop your Logic App solutions: Logic App (Standard) vs (Consumption).

There are a variety of different connectivity models available to enterprises as they embark further on their cloud journey. In this blog, we take a look at which model could suit your business best...

In the beginning, companies and cloud cost management vendors focused on reducing the absolute cost of the cloud. That would be the equivalent of solely focusing on the total cost of a sales organization versus considering how much new revenue they were booking, or the productivity of the sales team or the cost of customer acquisition. As cloud spend followed its rapid growth trajectory, curbing it most often relied on discounts.

AWS provides multiple ways to deploy containerized applications. From small, ready-made WordPress instances on Lightsail, to managed Kubernetes clusters running hundreds of instances across multiple availability zones. When deciding on the architecture of your application, you should consider building it serverless. Being free from (virtual) server management enables you to focus more on your unique business logic while reducing your operational costs and increasing your speed to market.